LITTLE RIVER SCHOOLS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your issue of April 13, a correspondent signing himself “ Here To-day and Away To-morrow,” in refeiring to the proposed school at Okuti Valley, tells us that there is only on® person outside the limit as prescribed by the Act. How your correspondent should bring himself to make such a statement is beyond my comprehension. Now, as a very old resident of Little River, I can venture to say, without fear of contradiction, that there is a large number- of settlers in Okuti outside the limit, and also that the nearest settlor to the district school is four miles distant, and three from the Native school. The latter, of course, is not taken into consideration, being solely for the use of Native children, in accordance with the Treaty of Waitangi. My opinion of your correspondent is that he is not a settler, and that he has been misled by someone who is a settler and who has an axe to grind.—l am, &c., £. s. d. Little River, April 14.
TO THE EDITOR. g lß) —Will you kindly allow me through the medium of your widely-read and valuable paper to say, in answer to Here To-day and Away To-morrow,” that he cannot know the disadvantages the children of Okuti labour under through not being able to attend a Board of Education school. Let him make inquiries in Okuti, and he will soon know. ■ I should think the influential gentlemen who drew up the petition and signed it, and who are residents here, and can see what little children are expected to accomplish, ought to know far better than “Here To-day and Away Tomorrow” the wants of the Okuti'.residents. “Here Today and Away To-morrow” may have,a “ stake in the country.” Yes, and a; couple of posts, too ; but any man who has a child and wants to have it educated has as great an interest in the country, and a little more. I don’t believe there is a settler in Little River who would oppose the school, that is, one with a conscience. —I am, &c., A RESIDENT. Okuti Valley, April 15. ,
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11556, 18 April 1898, Page 6
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357LITTLE RIVER SCHOOLS. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11556, 18 April 1898, Page 6
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